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" 1N ENTOR Atorney NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. CARTER, OF AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO ERNST H. HUENEFELD, OECINCINNATI, OHIO.

GEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,396, dated November11, 1902.

Application filed June 6, 1902. Serial No. 110,494:- (No model.)

T all whom, it muy concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN R. CARTER, of Augusta, in the county of Brackenand State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Gearing; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in gearing, and more particularlyto gearing for washing-machines, churns, and the like, the object of theinvention being to provide improvements of this character in which awheel is continuously revolved in either direction and adapted throughthe medium of intermeshing gears to intermittingly revolve a drivenshaft in opposite directions.

IVith this object in view the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, aswill be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation. Eig. 2 isa view in section. Fig. 3 is a horizontal plan view, partly in section;and Fig. 4 is a view of a modified form of my invention.

1 represents a tub or other receptacle having the cover 2, on which ametal frame 3 is secured, and comprises the base 4, made with anintegral bowed bracket 5 and provided at one end with converging arms 6,supporting a bearing 7, aliuing with a bearing in bracket 5 to supportthe drive-shaft S, turned by a hand wheel or other suitable mechanism.Frame 3 is provided with a vertical shaft 9, on which aninverted-cup-shaped wheel is mounted to turn. This wheel 10 is disposedhorizontally and has provided on its upper face at its outer edgeacircular rack 11, with which a gear 9 on drive-shaft 8 meshes tocontinuously revolve said wheel 10 in either direction, according to thedirection of movement of the drive-shaft. On the depending lower portionof wheel 10 an internal segmental gear 12 is provided, and an externalsegmental gear 13 is provided around the outer face ot' the wheel. Thesesegments 12 and 13 are located on the wheel 10 at diametrically oppositepoints and are adapted to engage idle gear-Wheels 14 and 15,respectively, located on suitable shafts or pins 16 17, secured in theframe and supporting the gears 14 and 15 on opposite sides of thedepending edge of the Wheel 10 and in position to be engaged bythesegments thereon. These shafts or pins 16 and 17 also carry gears 1S and19, which continuously mesh with a gear 20, secured on driven shaft 2i,which carries the dasher or agitator of the machine.

In operation the wheel 10 is continuously driven in either direction bythe gear 9, and, We will say, internal segment 12 first engages gear 15to revolve the same and gear 19. The latter meshing with gear 2O turnsdriven shaft 21 in one direction until internal gear 12 leaves gear 15and external gear 13 engages gear 14, which turns the same andv gear 1S,which latter, meshing with gear 20, revolves the latter and shaft 21 inthe reverse direction. It Will thus be seen that as the segments 12 and13 move into and out of engagement with gears 14 and 15 the driven shaftwill be alternately turned in opposite directions.

lVhile I have described shaft 21 as the Adriven shaft, it will be seenthat either shaft 16 or 17 might constitute the driven shaft and gear 20serve as an idler, the result being precisely as aboveeXplained-hnamely, to alternately revolve the driven shaft in oppo sitedirections.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a modified form of myinvention, in whichdrive-shaft 22 is provided with a vertically-disposed Wheel 23, made onits opposite faces at its edge with segments 2e and 25, respectively,said segments being located at points on the Wheel diametricallyopposite to each other. These segments engage idle gear-Wheels 26 and 27on shafts 28 and 29, carried by the frame 3, and on these shafts 2S and29 other gears 30 and 31, respectively, are secured and mesh with a gear32, located between them and secured to the driven shaft. 33. Theoperation of this form of my invention is as follows: Segment rstengages gear 27 to revolve the same and gear 31, which latter, meshingwith gear 32, revolves the same and driven shaft 33 in one direction. Assegment 25 leaves gear 27 segment 211 immediately engages gear 26 todrive the same and gear 30, which latter meshes with gear 32 to drivethe shaft 33 in the opposite direction. In this form of myinvention anyof the shafts 2S, 29, or 33 may constitute the driven shaft and carrythe dasher of the machine. I would also have it understood that though Ihave referred to the various gears separately the gears'on the sameshafts are made in the form of double integral gears.

A great many other changes might be made in the general form andarrangement of the several parts described Without departing from myinvention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise constructionset forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changesand alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of myinvention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of a Wheel to be continuously revolved in eitherdirection, said wheel provided with two gear-segments, a driven gear,idle gears alternately engaged by the segments and gears revolved by theidle gears to revolve the driven gear in opposite directions.

2. The combination of an invertedcupshaped wheel, a circular rackthereon, a gear meshing with the rack to drive the Wheel continuously ineither direction, said wheel provided With an internal and an externalgearsegment on its depending portion, idle gears alternately engaged bysaid segments, other gears turned by said idle gears, a driven shaft anda gear thereon to be intermittingly driven in opposite directions bysaid last-mentioned gears.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN R. CARTER.

YWitnesses:

S. W. FOSTER, A. W. BRIGHT.

